Sep 04, 2026 · 5 min read
OntologiesESCOFailure Modes
Why skill taxonomies break
Standardized taxonomies assume skills are discrete, orthogonal bricks. In actual production environments, skills are context-dependent assemblages.
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THE SOTA LAB · DISPATCHES & THEORETICAL ESSAYS
Dispatches
Ongoing thoughts, theoretical inquiries, and engineering notes from our researchers and engineers.
Aug 28, 2026 · 4 min read
CV ParsingSignal vs NoiseNLP
What a CV actually tells us
A CV is not an objective log of capability; it is an aspirational marketing document filtered through occupational vocabulary norms.
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Aug 19, 2026 · 6 min read
RepresentationsLatent SpaceBayesian
From embeddings to capability
Cosine similarity between skill vectors tells you whether two phrases sound alike, not whether a human can perform the underlying task.
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Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
PsychometricsCATAdaptive
Designing better cognitive assessments
Why fixed 50-question tests waste human time and generate noisy bounds around candidate proficiency.
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